Vehicle.



R. G. ROBERTS. VEHICLE.

APPLICATION FILE D SEPT. 22. 1905.

PATENTED AUG. 21, 1-906.

SHEEN-SHEET 1.

WI T .NESSES No. 828,970. I PATENTED AUG. 21. 1906. R. G. ROBERTS.

VEHICLE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 22. 1905.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2v WlT-NESSES: 1w VIM/TOR UNITED STATES PATENT ()FIFICE. ROBERT e. Rosters, MINNESOTA.

VEHICLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application filed September 22, 1905. Serial No. 279,613.

To (LZZ w/tmn/ it TH/(I/II/ concern: y Be it known that I, ROBERT G. ROBERTS, i a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicles; and I do declare the following to be a full, l end-boards being held by blocks, like 11, or clear, and exact description of the invention, any other suitable means. such as will enable others skilled in the art to IV hen the side-boards 6 are folded. down, which it appertains to make and use the as in Fig. 2, the eyes 8 serve as stick-pockets same, reference being had to the accompanyfor the projections or legs 12 of the side pieces ing drawings, and to the figures of reference 13 of the hay-rack, which is formed of said marked thereon, which form a part of this sides and of the front end 14 and rear end 15, both of which have corner blocks or cleats specification.

My invention relates to improvementsin 16, engag ng arms 17, secured to the side pieces, which are thereby held steady.

vehicles; and the main object is to provide a Upon the rear end. of the hay-rack are sevehicle whose main body may be retained, while the upper parts thereof are exchangecured two uprights 18, in which are journaled two rollers 19 and20, the latter provided with able and convertible into several forms for the carrying of various articles, like grain, poa hand-crank 21, and each of them provided with a hook 22. The rollers are preferably tatoes, hay, wood, stone, cattle, &c. The invention is especially applicable in connection geared together by sprocket-wheels 23 and a chain belt 24 to revolve in unison. Upon with wagons used by farmers and is therefore in the accompanying drawings represented as said rollers are wound, as indicated on the upper roller, the regular hay-slings 25 (best applied to the platform or body of a farm- Wagon and comprises also an attachment for shown in Fig. 6) when they are not in actual carrying hay-slings on when they are not in use, which arrangement saves wear and tear actual use. of the slings by having them drawn on the In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective ground behind the wagon, as has heretofore been the practice. By removing the hayrack in Fig. 2 the remaining sideboards 6 view of my improved wagon box or body ready for hauling grain, potatoes, and similar and bottom 2 constitute a very large flat cart or wagon for hauling stumps, roots, trees,

products in it. Fig. 2 is a front end elevation of the wagon-body converted into a hay corn on the stalk, grain in bundles, &c.

In Figs. 8 and 4 it will be seen that a very wagon with parts of the end broken away. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, and Fig. 4 an end elevation, of the wagon-body ready for haulcomplete cattle and poultry wagon is formed by removing the sideboards 6 in Fig. 2, placing the legs of the skeleton sides 13 into the ing poultry, sheep, and other cattle. Fig. 5

is an end. elevation of the wagon-body ready pockets 3 and substituting the short skeleton ends, like 26, in Fig. 4 for the longer ones in for hauling stone, Wood, or other large articles. Fig. 6 is a plan view of one of the hay- Fig. 2.

In Fig. 5 the wagon is converted into a slings to be rolled upon the attachment I pro vide for that purpose. Fig. 7 is a side elevatruck for hauling wood, lumber, large rocks, boxes, barrels, &c.

tion, and Fig. 8 an end elevation, of an end portion of one of the sides of the box in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings by referencenu- It is obvious that the frame and platform upon which I have illustrated my invention may be mounted upon runners as well as merals, 1 designates the frame timbers or sills, and 2 the platform or bottom of the I upon axles and wheels. I therefore do not mean to limit the use of the invention to wagon-box. The side sills of the frame are provided with stick-pockets 3 and staplewheeled vehicles only, although it may be mainly used for farm-wagons, and when so shaped hinge members 4. Into the latter are dropped downwardly the hook-shaped used it is readily understood that the farmer saves the great expense of purchasing the exhinge members 5, carried by the solid side pieces 6 of the wagon-box, which pieces have pensive Wheels, axles, framework, and bottom of four out of the five wagons produced transverse cleats 7, whose enlarged lower ends butt against the side sills and support the skeleton end-boards detachably securable to the ends of the skeleton side-boards, the pockets 3 upon the sides of the wagon-body adapted to receive the legs of the skeleton side-boards when said boards are closer together, and extra short skeleton end-boards detachably securable to the skeleton sideboards when the latter are in the pockets 3.

4. A wagon or vehicle comprising in combination, a body with hinge members on its sides, a wagon-box having removable solid ends and side-boards detachably secured together, said side-boards having hinge members detachably securable to the first-named hinge members, and means for holding the side-boards in vertical and in horizontal po sition, said side-boards having the stick-pockets 8 upon its edge, and the end-boards having the loops9 engaging said pockets to hold the side boards in their vertical position, skeleton side-boards having legs adapted to stand in the pockets 8 when the solid sideboards are in the horizontal position, and skeleton end-boards detachably securable to the ends of the skeleton side-boards, the pockets 3 upon the sides of the wagon-body adapted to receive the legs of the skeleton sideboards when said boards are closer together, and extra short skeleton end-boards detachably securable to the skeleton side-boards when the latter are in the pockets 3, and the stakes 27 adapted to go in the pockets 3 when the side-boards are all removed.

5. The combination with a hay-wagon for hauling hay, of a Windlass mounted thereon and having rollers adapted to carry hayslings wound upon them.

6. The combination with a hay-wagon for hauling hay, of a Windlass mounted thereon and having rollers adapted to carry hayslings wound upon them, said rollers being connected to rotate in unison, and having a hand-crank by which to turn them.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT Gr. ROBERTS.

by simply keeping on hand and exchanging positions of the cheap detachable parts I furnish with the one single wagon-body.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

1. A wagon or vehicle comprising in combination, a body with hinge members on its sides, a wagon-box having removable solid ends and side-boards detachably secured together, said side-boards having hinge mem bers detachably securable to the first-named hinge members, and means for holding the side-boards in vertical and in horizontal position, said side-boards having the stickpockets 8 upon its edge, and the end-boards having the loops 9 engaging said pockets to hold the side-boardsin their vertical position.

2. A wagon or vehicle comprising in combination, a body with hinge members on its sides, a wagon-box having removable solid ends and side-boards detachablysecured together, said side-boards having hinge mem bers detachably secured to the first-named hinge members, and means for holding the side-boards in vertical and in horizontal posi tion, said side-boards having the stick-pools ets 8 upon its edge, and the end-boards having the loops 9 engaging said pockets to hold the side-boards in their vertical position, skeleton side-boards having legs adapted to stand in the pockets 8 when the solid sideboards are in the horizontal position, and skeleton end-boards detachably securable to the ends of the skeleton side-boards.

8. A wagon or vehicle comprising in combination, a body with hinge members on its sides, a wagon-box having removable solid ends and side-boards detachably secured together, said side-boards having hinge members detachably secured to, the first-named hinge members, and means for holding the side-boards in vertical and in horizontal position, said side-boards having the stick-pockets 8 upon its edge, and the end-boards having the loops 9 engaging said pockets to hold the side-boards in their vertical position, skeleton side-boards having legs adapted to stand in the pockets 8 when the solid sideboards are in the horizontal position, and l Witnesses HARRY CAPRoN, W. h/IERKERT; 

